#Making txed resdent
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Chas, (cheath?)
I'll have to try out the multi-assigns with ARP assign. Of course I prefer to
make my needed assigns as needed instead of all in the startup-sequence.
Doesn't that use memory up? Especially if you happen to not run a particular
program that has all its assignments done on startup.
chris
Chas is my non-corporate entity, reserved for stupid pet tricks and the like.
Assigns use a little memory, but only 50 bytes or so apiece so shouldn't be
something you'd need to keep track of unless you're really running close to the
edge.
…cheath
cheath,
I'm always trying to keep memory usage to minimums, probably a throw back to
when I had so little of it. Now I'm up to 4 meg and 1 meg and still need more.
I hate to say it now, but I'd like more chip ram than the 1meg. I believe I'm
first to say that here, course I could be wrong. BTW, could you describe
flicker-fixer as a display board ram expansion, among other things? I still
like to keep assigns to minimum needs. Of course I'd like to see ASSIGN sys:
Dnn: be allowed in the ARP template.
chris
Chris;
Flicker-Fixer is totally transparent to the system….. that is the ram present
on the card is invisible.
=>73<=, bill =>KB7LX @ KC4EWO<=
bill,
I know that flicker-fixer is transparent to the system but I thought that you
might describe it to someone non-technically by saying it is an enhanced
display card with added memory to improve the display. BTW how's that '030
doing, haven't heard any more squeals of delight from you lately?
chris
Chris;
<squeal!!> <chuckle> The '030 is doing just fine! Pagestream will print
almost as fast (with 'normal' fonts) as WP does without the '030! We are
talking a couple of seconds per page! OF course I still can't TRUST Pgs any
further than I can THROW THIS BUILDING! Another neat feature of Pgs that I
have discovered is that it will occassionally 'trim' your document by stripping
out complete paragraphs from the middle of your document!! If it wern't so
Damn buggy, it would almost be a pleasure to use with the '030.
The flicker fixer really does not do anything to the display or its resolution.
It is not a graphics enchancement card. What it does is buffer the amiga
digital video output, a page at a time so that the same information can be
output to a monitor running a 37KHz (35, 32?) horizontal scan rate. This is
still a bit of a sore subject for me as I have spent another hundred buck on my
Thompson and still don't have a monitor!
Lets see….. yesterday I was running WP on four windows, PE on one, TxEd on
one, NB on one, CAL on one, Whap!, plus the usual, PopCLI, Alarm, Snipit,
MemWatch, and Rexxmaster. Quite impressive…. that combo would normally take
the machine to its knees.
=>73<=, bill =>KB7LX @ KC4EWO<=
bill,
sounds like your enjoying your new '030 card. I'm gonna get one as soon as I
can afford to do it. If this electronic pre-press takes off I'm sure I'll be
collecting plenty of hardware and software to keep it fed. We've already got
three clients ready to give us all their typesetting just as soon as we get up
and running. BTW the compugraphic RIP has a 25Mhz 68020 and 68882 with 8MB of
ram and an 80meg HD on it, so don't you think the Amiga should at least have
the same or an '030? [grin] P.S. Just got the WP update and they've changed the
RETRIEVE keyboard equivalent on it! No more using the [1] on the keyboard to
retrieve a file, that will now MARK it instead! It appears that there is no
Kybd Equiv for it now! Strange that they would change this, everyone wants to
retrieve files without having to reach for the mouse all the time!
chris
Chris;
I saw your comment to Lynn on the other forum. Yes, I sure hope that there is
a keyboard equivalent as I think that I use the mouse about 1% of the time and
really don't want to change.
=>73<=, bill =>KB7LX @ KC4EWO<=
bill,
I take it that you haven't updated WP yet? I would think that you'd be one of
the first to do so seeing how WP is basically your main bread and butter so to
speak. The old file requester is no longer and many of the multiple windows are
consolidated into one larger one. I haven't looked at it too hard but the one
thing that I noticed immediately was the missing keyboard equivalent or
retrieve file. I sure hope I'm missing something and that there is an
equivalent keyboard command somewhere.
chris
Chris;
I might have it already, have not made it to the P.O. Box since friday. Yes, I
will be a little annoyed if it is not there. I have not only bought all of
WP's Amiga products but also have influenced companies to buy WP IBM products.
I also have been on the list for upgrade since about November of last year!.
=>73<=, bill =>KB7LX @ KC4EWO<=
bill,
I got it quickly 'cause I paid extra for next day shipping. Also being on the
list is one thing but they wanted money this time before they shipped it.
chris
If there were an "ASSIGN SYS: someplace SYSTEM" sort of thing, it would not
save you any memory – the same things need to be done internally by DEFDISK,
it's just a typing shorthand.
I'm a dinosaur on memory usage myself, cringe at nearly any wasted bytes. But
at 50 bytes apiece, you can do 20 assigns in 1K byte or RAM, or
2% of ram in a base system. That's equivalent to two "Addbuffers" buffers, or
a window covering 1/12 of a WBench screen. There're plenty of other places to
conserve without limiting the number of assigns you make-
…cheath
( Er, that's .2%, not 2%. Somebody ate my dot… )